From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/5095 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Urs Schreiber Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Re: The Wikibook on Category Theory Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:42:12 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: Urs Schreiber NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1250699419 6938 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2009 16:30:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:30:19 +0000 (UTC) To: Michael Shulman , categories@mta.ca Original-X-From: categories@mta.ca Wed Aug 19 18:30:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mailserv.mta.ca ([138.73.1.1]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Mdo30-0003jh-Tl for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from Majordom by mailserv.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1MdnMU-0003Wq-Iy for categories-list@mta.ca; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:46:06 -0300 Original-Sender: categories@mta.ca Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:5095 Archived-At: On 8/18/09, Michael Shulman wrote: > I love the nLab too, but I'm not sure that "merging" is the right > word; probably the two are serving slightly different purposes. The > overall nLab is not really organized like a textbook or designed to be > read linearly; writing a textbook requires additional thought. But > there is certainly no reason why the two can't share material and link > to each other as appropriate. I agree. Maybe "merging the effort" wasn't a good choice of words, but when I saw the wikibook I had the strong impression that there were similar intentions here to a large piece of the nLab and I thought it should be useful and easy to transfer content and join forces where reasonable and desirable. > And/or one could choose to write a > textbook as a section of the nLab rather than on Wikibooks (if, for > instance, one preferred its offerings in the way of mathematical > typesetting). Yes, that sounds like an interesting idea. Another advantage might be a greater and easier supply of cross-hyperlinks, either way. In any case, there are many category-theoretic entries (and not just those) on the nLab -- existing ones and not-yet existsing ones -- where I would find more textbook-style material highly desireable. Best, Urs [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]